Apparel Views published “Greenwashing is no longer a messaging issue — it’s a data issue” on 1 October 2026, credited to the editorial team. The piece is about clothing, not about answer engines.
“Greenwashing is therefore no longer just a communications risk. It is increasingly a structural issue rooted in how product information is captured, shared and verified across the supply chain.”
— Apparel Views, 1 October 2026
The article says research cited by FACTA found companies meeting roughly half of their environmental pledges, and that reviews of the sector keep finding claims that are hard to check because the data is inconsistent or incomplete. It names regulator and UN scrutiny as the pressure behind that. It then puts the EU Digital Product Passport, under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, at the center of the shift: sustainability labelling moving from a voluntary slogan toward disclosure that has to be traceable. The piece says early indications point to more than 100 data entry points across a value chain, and that most fashion supply chains still cannot see cleanly past the first tier of suppliers.
“If it cannot be traced, it cannot be claimed.”
— Apparel Views, 1 October 2026
The distinction that matters here
A product passport is a record about a product: materials, substances, and the documents that are supposed to support a claim. It is not a record of the company that sells the product. Both can be true at once. A brand can have a messy public identity and a careful product file, or the reverse. AI Verified did not reproduce FACTA’s tables. The figures above are the article’s, and they stay attributed to it.
An earlier automated note quoted a cryptocurrency headline under this title. That headline is not in the Apparel Views piece. It has been removed.
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